Medicine
CVS – Diagnostic approach
Exam Yield
| Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter | 50% |
| Ease of Revision | 8.26 / 10 |
Question Pattern
Questions come from standard stuff we get asked in 1st Clinical postings.
Read Harrison thoroughly about heart sounds & murmurs.
Somehow JVP remains a hot favorite topic.
Recent Questions
Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about
- Absent y descent
- Disappearance of Loud S1 in mitral stenosis
- Austin Flint murmur
- ‘a’ wave in JVP
- Continuous murmur
- Mid-diastolic murmur
- Pulsus paradoxus
- Loud S1
- Soft S1
- Graham Steell murmur
- Dynamic auscultation of murmurs
- Signs in Aortic Regurgitation
Suggested Revision
- Types of abnormal pulse
- Ventricular & Atrial gallop
- Named murmurs (Still’s,Carey Coombs )
- Findings in Genetic syndromes (Marfan’s etc )
- JVP waveform and the abnormalities
- Wide, Narrow, reverse splitting of S2